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Well, hello, and welcome to the Locked on NFL podcast.

I am Matt Williamson, former NFL Scout, former College Scout recruiting assistant director of football opposite Akron I was at ESPN for 10 years I have another podcast I urge you to check out dynasty blueprint I mentioned that now because Evan Silva stopped by to talk about from a fantasy perspective with Ryan McDowell and myself, about the rookie ranks,

the top guys, you know, for your fantasy drafts. Check that out. I think you'll like it.

Evan always brings good stuff. I'm going to get him on this show at one point.

Quick show notes before we get into the NFC North recap. I mentioned Wednesday, I guess it was, that I have an odd schedule coming up.

I am totally out-of-pocket Monday, Tuesday, better part of Wednesday. I'm taking my son on his

sixth grade field trip that they do, six graders do in our community. And there honestly is like

no internet or civilization.

So I'm getting this podcast to you as usual on Friday.

I'm going to do at least one more over the weekend, maybe another,

just buzzing through these divisions to make up for a Monday, Tuesday,

not being able to do it. And I'm going to get in touch with my guests

next week, of course, to figure out what we can do with them. I assume Sando will be fine still

for Thursday. That won't affect things. But I'm going to try to get you, at most I'm going to

short your one podcast. It is the bottom line.

But it might just come in different times than you're used to when you download. So make

sure you go to iTunes and subscribe. Make sure you don't miss anything. Leave me a review while you're

there. And let's dig into the Vikings right away. And sometimes, you know, a lot of us get

caught up in these mocks and these ranks and all these things,

but sometimes you need to be smart and just look at the draft through each team's eyes.

And I'm sure people out there were saying,

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